“To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.”
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
I always separated sports and my personal life.
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the underprivileged, it discriminates against the poor. If we want sports to go back to the wealthy, let's make it amateur again.
Why do we have 47 million people without health care? Because America has become about 'me'. What's happened to 'we' as a people? I believe in that and that resonates to most people.
